External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar has said that today's changing world requires a global workforce, stressing that nations cannot escape the reality that demands for a global workforce cannot be met in many countries due to national demographics.
His remarks come amid trade and tariff challenges, as well as President Donald Trump’s hardline stance on immigration, including a new USD 100,000 fee on H-1B visas that largely affects Indian professionals who make up the majority of beneficiaries of these temporary work visas.
Addressing the event ‘At the Heart of Development: Aid, Trade, and Technology’ hosted by the Observer Research Foundation (ORF) on the margins of the UN General Assembly session on Wednesday, Jaishankar called for the creation of a more acceptable, contemporary, efficient model of a global workforce, which can then be located in a distributed, global workplace.
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